While this was a decent collection of stories on the history of bicycle usage in Alaska, I just couldn't get around to completing each one individually. I would start, get about halfway through and think to myself, "Okay, I get this, not interested - on to the next one." Lather, rinse, repeat. I will give a lot of credit to Jessica Cherry for her research and editing to put together a collection of stories that many will not know about, but it just wasn't a book that could keep my interest.

I wanted this to be captivating. I was underwhelmed.

Don't get me wrong; these are well written personal accounts. But none of them seemed particularly entertaining or memorable.

They are certainly unique points of view, and for that, worth reading.

"...the two small shapes on the ice ahead of him had materialized into people on bicycles." (87)

I was looking more for Xgames, I guess.